Roberto Carcassés
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Robert Carcassés is a Cuba
n jazz pianist. He was born on May 19, 1972, in Havana
, Cuba. He has collaborated with many musicians, such as Chucho Valdés
, Changuito
, Wynton Marsalis
, George Benson
, and Descemer Bueno
. He is the bandleader of the Interactivo collective.
, Germany
, and Spain
between 1992 and 1995. He took part in a tour in Spain and the US with the group Columna B, in 1998–1999. During this period, he taught in the Jazz Workshop of Stanford University
.
) and New Rose Hotel (US). His CD, entitled Invitation and released in 2000, showcased many aspects of his musical capacity as a pianist, but also as a music director and arranger. Carcassés presented his last album, Matizar, at the Che Guevara
hall of the Casa de las Américas
in July 2009.
, Changuito
, Wynton Marsalis
, George Benson
, Gonzalito Rubalcaba, and Harper Simon
.
He participated in the albums Trampas Del Tiempo (Pavel y Gema), Jazz Timbero (alongside his father, Bobby Carcassés) and Twisted Noon (Columna B).
His most recent productions are Telmary’s A diario (2006), and Breathe (2006), the second album of singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Yusa
. He worked on Goza Pepillo as bandleader for Interactivo, a collective that includes Yusa, Telmary Diaz
, Francis del Rio, William Vivanco
, Elmer Ferrer, Rodney Barreto, Julio Padrón, Juan Carlos Marin, Carlos Sarduy, Denis Cuní, Alexander Brown
, Rafael Paseiro, Edgar Martinez, Adel González, Carlos Mirayes, Nestor del Prado, Oliver Valdés, Lissette Ochoa, Lisandra, Maryuri Rivera, Jorge L. Chicoy, Roberto Martinez, Kumar, Athanai, Kelvis Ochoa
, and Descemer Bueno
. The collective won the Cubadisco Award in 2006.
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
n jazz pianist. He was born on May 19, 1972, in Havana
Havana
Havana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...
, Cuba. He has collaborated with many musicians, such as Chucho Valdés
Chucho Valdés
Chucho Valdés is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. In 1972 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands. Together with pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Valdés is revered as one of Cuba's greatest jazz pianists...
, Changuito
Changuito
Changuito is a Cuban percussionist.-Biography:Quintana was born in 1948 in Casablanca, Cuba. As a child he played professionally in bands such as Havana Jazz , with his musician father, and with La Pandilla de los Cabezas de Perros...
, Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...
, George Benson
George Benson
George Benson is a ten Grammy Award winning American musician, whose production career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist....
, and Descemer Bueno
Descemer Bueno
Descemer Bueno is a Cuban singer, composer, and producer. His first professional gigs were playing bass with Santiago Feliú, one of Cuba’s greatest troubadours.-Early life:...
. He is the bandleader of the Interactivo collective.
Biography
Also known as Robertico, Roberto Carcassés graduated in percussion from the National School of Arts in Havana in 1991. He toured as a pianist with the Grupo de Santiago Feliú in ArgentinaArgentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, and Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
between 1992 and 1995. He took part in a tour in Spain and the US with the group Columna B, in 1998–1999. During this period, he taught in the Jazz Workshop of Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
.
Solo career
Carcassés has been invited to perform at many international jazz festivals, including the Barcelona Jazz Festival (1997), the Havana Festival (1995, 1996, 1997) and the Utah Jazz Festival (1998). In 1997, Roberto Carcassés composed the soundtrack for the film Violetas (México), as well as some songs for the films Cuarteto De La Habana (SpainSpain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
) and New Rose Hotel (US). His CD, entitled Invitation and released in 2000, showcased many aspects of his musical capacity as a pianist, but also as a music director and arranger. Carcassés presented his last album, Matizar, at the Che Guevara
Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...
hall of the Casa de las Américas
Casa de las Américas
Casa de las Américas is an organization that was founded by the Cuban Government in April 1959, four months after the Cuban Revolution, for the purpose of developing and extending the socio-cultural relations with the countries of Latin America, the Caribbean and the rest of the world...
in July 2009.
Collaborations
Carcassés has collaborated with many musicians such as Chucho ValdésChucho Valdés
Chucho Valdés is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. In 1972 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands. Together with pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Valdés is revered as one of Cuba's greatest jazz pianists...
, Changuito
Changuito
Changuito is a Cuban percussionist.-Biography:Quintana was born in 1948 in Casablanca, Cuba. As a child he played professionally in bands such as Havana Jazz , with his musician father, and with La Pandilla de los Cabezas de Perros...
, Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...
, George Benson
George Benson
George Benson is a ten Grammy Award winning American musician, whose production career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist....
, Gonzalito Rubalcaba, and Harper Simon
Harper Simon
Harper James Simon is an American singer-songwriter, musician and producer. He is the son of musician Paul Simon and Paul's first wife, Peggy Harper.-Early life:...
.
He participated in the albums Trampas Del Tiempo (Pavel y Gema), Jazz Timbero (alongside his father, Bobby Carcassés) and Twisted Noon (Columna B).
His most recent productions are Telmary’s A diario (2006), and Breathe (2006), the second album of singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Yusa
Yusa
Yusa is a Cuban singer and songwriter, born in the Buena Vista district of Havana, Cuba. Her music is recognised worldwide : in 2003, she was nominated at the prestigious BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards in two categories...
. He worked on Goza Pepillo as bandleader for Interactivo, a collective that includes Yusa, Telmary Diaz
Telmary Diaz
Telmary Diaz , better known as simply Telmary, is an award-winning Toronto-based Cuban rapper, musician, and spoken-word artist.- Early life :...
, Francis del Rio, William Vivanco
William Vivanco
-History:William Vivanco is a Cuban composer and musician. Vivanco was born in 1975 in Santiago, Cuba, and learned to play guitar by frequenting Casa de la Trova on Calle Heredia, "stealing chords". He busked in the streets, and also performed with a professional children's choir...
, Elmer Ferrer, Rodney Barreto, Julio Padrón, Juan Carlos Marin, Carlos Sarduy, Denis Cuní, Alexander Brown
Alexander Brown
Alexander Brown was an Australian politician.Brown was born in Maitland, New South Wales and educated at Fraser's private school, West Maitland. He married Mary Ellen Ribbands in August 1872 and they had three daughters and six sons. He was trained as a solicitor, but did not practice...
, Rafael Paseiro, Edgar Martinez, Adel González, Carlos Mirayes, Nestor del Prado, Oliver Valdés, Lissette Ochoa, Lisandra, Maryuri Rivera, Jorge L. Chicoy, Roberto Martinez, Kumar, Athanai, Kelvis Ochoa
Kelvis Ochoa
Kelvis Ochoa is an author-composer-singer born in 1970 in Las Tunas, Cuba. At the age of 3 his parents moved to Isla de la Juventud , situated about 100 kilometers south of the Havana shore where he grew up. He is very popular with young Cubans and famous worldwide for having co-composed the...
, and Descemer Bueno
Descemer Bueno
Descemer Bueno is a Cuban singer, composer, and producer. His first professional gigs were playing bass with Santiago Feliú, one of Cuba’s greatest troubadours.-Early life:...
. The collective won the Cubadisco Award in 2006.
Jazz festival performances
- Ottawa International Jazz FestivalOttawa International Jazz FestivalThe TD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival was founded in 1980 and is now a multi-week festival of jazz music, featuring performers from all around the world. It is held in the summer in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and takes place at various locations throughout the city. The main events...
, Canada (2005) - Istanbul International Jazz FestivalIstanbul International Jazz FestivalThe Istanbul International Jazz Festival, formerly Istanbul Festival, is a cultural event held every July in Istanbul, Turkey. It offers a selection of jazz music performances with the participations of famous artists from all over the world. The festival was first held in 1986 and is organized by...
, Turkey (2003) - Utah Jazz Festival, U.S.A (1998)
- Stanford Jazz Festival, California U.S.A (1998)
- Barcelona Jazz Festival, Spain (1997)
- Festival de San Sebastián with David Murry, Spain
- Festival de Jazz Vienne Sud de la France
- Festival de La Habana (1995, 1996, 1997, 2006)
- Blue NoteBlue Note RecordsBlue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...
, Tokyo, Japan Ronnie ScottRonnie ScottRonnie Scott was an English jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner.-Life and career:Ronnie Scott was born in Aldgate, east London, into a family of Russian Jewish descent on his father's side, and Portuguese antecedents on his mother's. Scott began playing in small jazz clubs at the age of...
, London U.K Jamboree, Barcelona, Spain
Compositions, productions, arrangements
- Pavel y Gema- Trampas del tiempo
- Bobby Carcassés – Jazz Timbero
- Columna B – Twisted Noon for Mambo Music, Selma Reis
- Luis Bofill – New Album (2007)
- InteractivoInteractivoInteractivo is a collaborative group of Cuban musicians, led by the pianist, singer and composer Roberto Carcasses. As an acknowledgement of their growing notoriety, the band has recently been the subject of a documentary directed by Tane Martinez, and premiered at the Havana International Film...
, Goza Pepillo Award winner (Prize Cubadisco + Opera Prima y Fusión) (2006) - Yusa – Breath – U.K (2006)
- Telmary – A Diario – Cuba (2006)
- William Vivanco – La Isla Milagrosa – Cuba (2006)
- Francis del Rio – Sentimiento – Cuba (2006)
- Breathing Havana – Compilation – Japan (2006)
- Cool Cool Filin – Compilation- Japan (2006)
- Ojos de Brujo – Techarí – Spain (2006)
- Jazz Cuba Today DVD, first DVD to be released in Cuba (2005)
- Roberto Carcassés – Invitation Solo Album, Velas Rec. U.S.A (2000)
External links
- http://www.artistdirect.com/artist/bio/roberto-carcasses/705888#at
- http://www.myspace.com/robertocarcasses
- http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/7262374/a/Jazz+Timbero.htm
- http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=6387
- http://twitter.com/robertcarcasses
- http://music.msn.com/music/artist/roberto-carcasses/
- http://www.globalrhythm.net/WorldNews/CubanPianistRobertoCarcassesToMakeRareUSAppearanceOnJuly17.cfm
- http://roselivemusic.com/index.php?option=com_eventlist&view=details&id=203:roberto-carcarses&Itemid=56
- http://vodpod.com/watch/2242837-roberto-carcasss-performs-mecanica-cotidiana
- http://www.bluemonkblog.net/2009/10/carcasses-unplugged.html